Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 29, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: From Moscow To Maui
Season 2, episode 4 W: Andrew Schneider D: Mike Vejar With Jeff Pomerantz (Yuri Dolgof), Susan Heldfond (Nina Marcova), Jim Grimshaw (Major), John Dullaghan (Col. Halver), Jeff Albert (Mikhail Fillipovitch), Marianne Muellerleile (Olga), Allan Rich (Kallugin), R.J. Arterburn (Turk), Jan Ivan Dorin (Tarasov). A defected Russian pilot hires Magnum to get his fiancee, a member of the Soviet track team, to defect as well.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Three The Hard Way
Season 4, episode 4 W: Richard Rosenstock, Roy Teicher D: Bob Claver With Maggie Roswell (Donna Hammond). Mork discovers he's pregnant after he and Mindy return from their honeymoon.
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| [NBC 8:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: Make Room For Uncle Buster
Season 2, episode 1 W: Bill Dial D: Rod Daniel Stella's penniless Uncle Buster arrives on her doorstep with his latest invention.
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| [ABC 8:30] Best Of The West [Reg]: The New Marshal
Season 1, episode 8 W: Mitch Markowitz D: Tom Trbovich With Mark Withers (Nat Lindsay). Sam loses his badge in a special election to Parker Tillman's squeaky clean hand-picked candidate.
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| [NBC 8:30] Lewis & Clark [Reg]: Welcome To Luckenbach
Season 1, episode 1 Premiere of a series about a family, fed up with big city life, who moves to a small Texas town. Tonight, new arrival Stewart aims to fire saloon manager Roscoe Clark.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Blazing Saddles (1974)
W: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger D: Mel Brooks With Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, John Hillerman, George Furth. In order to ruin the western town of Rock Ridge, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Paternity
Season 8, episode 1 W: Nat Mauldin D: Danny Arnold With Rebecca Holden (Wendy McWilliams), Dana Gladstone (Arthur Frane), Stephen Gierasch (Victor Lupton), Pierrino Mascarino (Joseph Banning). Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Growing Up
Season 4, episode 1 W: Debra Frank, Scott Rubenstein D: Gerren Keith With Janet Jackson (Charlene DuPrey). His friends' stories of their sexual exploits convince Willis it's time he "became a man" -- only he must convince his steady girlfriend first.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Jim Joins The Network
Season 4, episode 4 W: David Lloyd D: Noam Pitlik With Martin Short (Mitch Harris), Melendy Britt (Janine). A network executive, in danger of losing his job, uses Jim and his psychic powers to schedule shows.
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| [NBC 9:30] Gimme A Break [Reg]: Katie The Crook
Season 1, episode 1 W: Sy Rosen, Mort Lachman D: Howard Storm With Howard Morton (Officer Simpson), Mike Darnell (George). Series premiere. A widowed police chief hires a no-nonsense woman to raise his chlidren and run his home. In the opening episode Officer Simpson arrives at the house with Katie, who was picked up for shoplifting, which results in the chief ordering Katie to move out.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
The life of John Lennon; envelope-stuffing employment swindles; how the discovery of oil has transformed a sleepy Louisiana village into a bayou boom town; a profile of Diana Ross.
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| [NBC 10:00] Hill Street Blues [Reg]: Hearts And Minds
Season 2, episode 1 W: Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich D: Gregory Hoblit With Barbara Babcock (Grace Gardiner), Trinidad Silva (Jesus Martinez), Sandy McPeak (Mac MacAllister), Danny Glover (Jesse John Hudson), Teddi Siddall (Susan Downey), Nathan Cook (Virgil Brooks), Charles Guardino (Ben Lambert). A prostitute accuses a detective of blackmailing her for sex; Goldblume searches for a missing child; a former gang leader returns to the Hill as crusading social reformer; Belker busts a purse snatching orangutan and keeps in touch with an undercover rookie planted inside a volatile street gang; Furillo and Esterhaus question their current romantic involvements.
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